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AIBU to feel smug about having solved youth/pot/litter problem outside my house

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fairiesandbutterflies · 15/09/2011 22:51

We live in a nice area but like so many other places it is being dragged down by the actions of a selfish minority. Recently we have had a bunch of youths from outside the immediate area, who park up and drink/chat/smoke all night outside our house. To be fair, they are not especially noisy, but - and this is what really irks me - they leave shit loads of litter behind every time. Bottles of vodka, crisp packets, biscuit boxes, beer cans etc. And the dog-ends of cannabis joints.

Anyway, after having cleared up after them for the umpteenth time, I had an eppy and decided to call the police, on the basis that they were being anti-social, and smoking drugs. I made a call to the non-emergency 101 number. The police showed up in 30 mins, and nicked two of them for possession. I've not seen any of these fuckers since - about 3 weeks ago now (they used to show up about 4 times a week)

AIBU to not give a shit that I might have possibly wrecked some kid's life through a drug possession rap, but in fact have possibly slightly improved the neighbourhood ?

OP posts:
discobeaver · 16/09/2011 08:11

Eppi short for Epiphany is brilliant, I love it.
I thought the OP was going to say she provided a bin and solved the litter problem - calling the police is clearly the winning option though!

Callisto · 16/09/2011 08:28

I'm amazed that the police came out. We have had a series of incidents in the car park next door to our house of little shits littering, smoking dope and driving their cars like maniacs. The police have never once come out when we've phoned. Luckily the little shits have all grown up/been sent down so don't bother us anymore.

I am also all for confronting anti-social behaviour. DH also, but he has twice been threatened with violence for doing so - in a small, very 'nice' Cotswold town. So I can see why people would rather not be confrontational.

VeryLittleGravitas · 16/09/2011 08:35

minimisschief

Yeah, let's all use disablist language. Freedom of speech and all that...

I'll stop being so sensitive when fuckers like you stop taking the piss out of my disabled son.

WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 16/09/2011 08:50

Maybe OP did mean it as in epiphany? She hasn't said she didn't.

VeryLittleGravitas I understand why you are upset but you don't know for sure that's what the OP meant. Even if she did then yes it is insensitive (but I guess the word has a sort of double meaning) but she isn't directly and deliberately taking the piss out of your son.

VeryLittleGravitas · 16/09/2011 08:59

I wasn't having a go at the OP, I was challenging minimisschief, who thinks it's acceptable to use disablist language, and objectors should all get a grip and stop being so sensitive.

Tell me mini, is racist language acceptable under your "freedom of speech" banner?

fanjobanjowanjo · 16/09/2011 09:15

Kudos to you you did the right thing. If you would have left it it could have escalted to needles being left there

Lol having a few joints as a teenager always leads to heroin injected straight into the vein. Hmm

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